Briggs (Richard) The English art of cookery, according to the present practice; being a complete guide to all housekeepers, on a plan entirely new, first edition, 12 engraved bills of fare for the months of the year, piece from outer margin of a2 and O5, the latter just affecting 2 letters recto, but with no loss of sense of text, water-stained, occasional spotting or light staining, antique style calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with 18th century red morocco label, [Bitting p.60 (note); Cagle 577; Maclean pp.15-16; Oxford pp.115-116 (note)], 8vo, Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788.

⁂ Briggs is described on the title as 'Many years cook at the Globe Tavern, Fleet-Street, the White Hart Tavern, Holborn, and now at the Temple Coffee-House, London'.